The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 5
‘Ah!’ exclaimed the King, kissing her tenderly as he spoke, ‘you are indeed a good daughter.’
Who acts: King, you · What happens: exclaim, kiss, speak, be · To what, where: King, good daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kissing | punct |
| 9 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 exclaimed | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tenderly | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kissing | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tenderly | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 daughter | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 22 daughter | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 daughter | cop |
| 19 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 22 daughter | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 daughter | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 daughter | amod |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kiss | gerund | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | King | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | a good daughter | indeed property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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